Title: Dead Lost

Summery: Eric left a year ago, but now Sookie's being pulled back into his life. The initial mystery Sookie is asked to solved is over come simply, but now Eric wants to start over with Sookie, will they be able to get it together, or will the year apart and the changes that came with it drive them apart for good?

Pam/Sookie Friendship, Eric/Sookie eventually-like you had to guess.

Rated: M.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the words I write. The characters, themes and products most likely belong to someone else, except for any names/persons not mentioned in True Blood or the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

That night I hadn't expected to be interrupted, my bath was ready, hot piping and smelled good. I had nail polish, a foot spa, and a movie marathon set up. I had finally had a night of peace, if I ignored the thunder and lightening, and then the knocking on my door disrupted it. With a saddened sigh I walked to the door and pulled it open.

My heart slammed against my chest and then stopped, "Pam?" thunder cracked in the sky, lightening flashed and the rain continued to poor down, "Come in! Let me get you a towel." I left the door ajar and rushed to my bathroom to get the vampire a towel.

"Thank you." She said her voice soft, quiet, and weird. She took the band out of her hair and toweled it off, her blue eyes scanning the house, and me.

"Let me get you something to change into." I dashed up the stairs, grabbed a shirt and a pair of shorts and went back downstairs, "don't worry, the fairies are out." I directed her to the bathroom and then closed and locked the front door.

I offered her blood and she said she'd like one, so I went in the kitchen and warmed one up, when I went into the living room she was standing by the fireplace looking at the pictures, I gave them a sideways glance.

"The girl is very pretty. Where are they now?" Pam asked, she was still toweling her long hair.

"With Claude." I replied, holding out the bottle, "they're his kids."

"They look like you." I shrugged and glanced at the picture of the blonde four year olds, their eyes were emerald green, and there skin two shades tanner than mine. I'd been pretty angry when Claude told me his kids would be living with us; I hadn't even known he had kids, "how have you been Sookie?" Pam interrupted my thoughts.

"I've been good Pam, and you?" I answer crossing over to my couch and sitting down, adjusting my robe.

"I was good, but I'm not here under happy circumstances." She looked, and sounded, genuinely sorry she was here, and after a brief pause she continued, "I understand if you don't want to help. But it seems Eric is in need of your assistance."

Why did that not surprise me, "yeah and how can I help?" I moved adjusted myself on the couch, Pam took a seat in the arm chair across from me, and we both glanced toward the clock, 2am.

"I need you to come to Oklahoma with me, the queen wishes to hire you. Of course you don't have to." She actually took a sip of her blood, "the queen had a pet, a telepath like you, and someone has abducted her. The queen believes it was humans, she's already hired a witch to hunt, but she would love if you could come to help."

I made a mental note that Pam referred to her as the "queen". She had never once called Felipe or Sophie "king" or "queen" if they were not around, it was odd.

"I would love not coming to help." I replied, Pam raised her eyebrow in shock, "what was this telepaths name?"

"Linda." Pam answers, then goes on to explain the circumstances, "you're Fae are home. Don't worry I can handle myself, Linda was a fairy." A few seconds later Dermot, Claude and the twins walked in.

The older of the fairies halted instantly while the kids skipped over to me, "What is that Fanger doing here?" Claude hissed, glaring at the back of Pam's head as if willing it to light on fire.

"Mind you manners Claude." I snapped, Pam glanced at the kids with an unidentifiable look in her eyes, her gaze quickly returned to me. I could see she really had no longing for children, "Pam is here as a guest, much like you are." He huffed and corralled the children up the stairs, away from Pam.

"Please excuse his rudeness." Dermot said as he passed us and went upstairs, I turned back to Pam who was taking another sip of the blood. She raised an eyebrow at me, waiting for my answer.

"Do you have any suspects?" I caved, I needed a break from being here I was going stir crazy, with almost a year of nobody trying to kill me or harm me or claim me. Was it so weird that I wanted the hectic life I had before?

"One of the crazy church groups up there, or a drainer wanting to lure a vampire after him, we're not sure yet. But so far all signs point to humans." She glanced at the clock once more, 2:45. Thunder claps outside, but the windows shake and rumble with them.

"You can stay in the hidey-hole if you need Pam. I will think over the request and have an answer when you rise." She nods, "how has he been?"

"He is surviving. How have you been?" she seemed like she genuinely cared about me, but when replying to Eric she was hasty and indifferent, another mental note.

"I've been…going through the motions as it seems." I answer honestly, in the back of my mind Eric's voice echoed through my head, she's a better friend then you know. I trusted her, even after a year of not seeing her-or any vampires-, I still did. It was one more thing that set me apart from everyone else. Crazy old Sookie Stackhouse. I almost smiled.

"Well, maybe I'll get you out of the motions and into living." She finished her blood and took it to the kitchen, yet I had hardly moved and she was standing at the foot of the couch, "so hidey-hole?"

I showed her where it was, said goodnight, took my bath, dressed and crawled in bed, I fell asleep a few seconds after I crawled in, that night I dreamt of a lot of things, mostly Eric and Pam and that horrible fight with Victor.

When I woke up the next afternoon I heard people running around the house, it took me a few minutes to fully wake up and then I went into the bathroom to shower and get dressed before entering the kitchen. And it was a mess.

Flour was everywhere, empty egg cartons, smashed eggs, spilled milk, water, batter, dirty dripping dishes. I found the two culprits standing in the middle of the kitchen, a mess and grinning from ear to ear as their faces turned red, "sorry Aunt Sookie, we were just trying to make you breakfast." Genie explains her face reddening more. Max's face matched hers.

"It's alright; do you two need some help?" they nod and I pull my hair up into a pony tail, stepping up to the mixer and seeing what they had done. A half an hour later, we were all sitting down to breakfast, the twins chattering away about school on Friday.

Once we were finished they departed to separate bathrooms while I washed the dishes and cleaned up the kitchen, surprisingly easier then I thought. Claude and Dermot had already left for work and I was taking the Twin's to a birthday party. Before I left I made sure the house was locked up, I couldn't risk anything happening to Pam.

I dropped the kids off at the party; the mom of the birthday girl said she would bring the kids back home, after I double checked she could find the house, I drove over to Merlotte's, Sam was shocked to see me and he almost came around the bar to hug me, but one look from Hopper stopped him.

"What are you doing here Sookie?" he asked, handing Andy a glass of soda. I took a seat one down from the cop and ordered a soda as well, Jannalynnleft a few minutes later, but not before giving Sam a kiss that clearly embarrassed him, shooting me a nasty look on her way out.

Ever since that Sandra incident she has decided that I was even farther beneath her than I had been before, I ignored her glare and drank my soda in peace, "sorry about that Sookie. Are you okay? Something seems wrong."

"Yeah actually. Pam stopped by this morning." He visibly tensed, "something has happened in Okalahoma and the Queen needs my help."

"Are you going?" I shrugged, I had no idea if I was going or not, I hadn't actually sat down to think about it, "well what happened?" I took a sip of my glass.

"Someone, like me, went missing a few days ago I guess. They've hired a…specialist, to try and find her and want someone, like me, to help them." I spin the glass around, "I want to go help, because I feel bad."

"They can always get someone else, like Barry." I shrug and nod, "well either way I've got enough waitresses to cover for you Sook." He says, and then goes on to serve others. I stay at the bar for a little bit longer and then drive over to the library to return books and browse for new ones.

I get so caught up looking for books, and thinking over what Pam asked, and reading some of the books; it was half an hour to sundown by the time I was almost home, when I pulled up the sun was down and I could see that both of the kids were in the kitchen.

I grabbed my books, purse and keys before running up the steps and into the house, "sorry I was so late." I stopped dead in my tracks, this was the second time today I'd come into my kitchen and found it trashed. Again.

This time I found Pam helping the twins create the mess, "Oh. My. God." The twins stopped dead and Pam halted before she collided with Genie, "what are you doing now?"

"We wanted to surprise you and daddy before you got home, and since Vampire Pam was up and let us in I asked if she'd like to help. She agreed." Max explained, "Sorry Aunt Sookie."

"It's okay. What were you making?" I set my stuff down on the table outside the kitchen, "can I help?"

"No! Go!" Genie pushed me out with all her little might, which was really not much, with a sigh I walked down to my room with my books. A half an hour later Pam knocked on my door. I called that she could come in and set my book down, sitting up on my bed.

"Have you made your decision?" she asks, closing the door behind her, her voice dropping a little lower.

"Do you have the contract?" I decided there was no need to shy around the corner, "I want to look it over before I agree."

She nodded, disappeared for a minute and came back holding two page contract, I took it from her, read over it twice, "alright. I would seem you two remembered our old agreement. I'll go with you." I took the pen she offered me and signed the contract, she tucked it safely back into her purse.

"We'll leave tomorrow evening then, sound good?" I nod, "are you going to stay here?"

"Of course. I enjoy watching your cousin squirm." She gave me her catty smile, "dinner is ready and Claude and Dermot are home." We both head out to the kitchen, which is now clean, and sit down with the two Fae and the Twins.

Pam sips at her TruBlood and keeps up a casual conversation with Dermot, while Claude glares holes into Pam's head, finally after the twins had cleared the table and gone to shower I told Dermot and Claude that I was leaving.

Naturally Claude's first reaction was to tell me I was an idiot, "yeah, well they need my help and I could sure use the money. Besides I figure you two can get along with out me for awhile, right?"

"Yes, we'll be fine. Are you going to be okay, being around all those vampires?" I resisted the urge to kick Dermot under the table, "What?" he asked defensively, his face showing his confusion at my glare.

"Does Pam not know?" Claude asked, his voice taking a hopeful tone.

I was still questioning how I didn't launch myself across the table, "No. She didn't." I got up, deposited my plate in the sink and said I was going to bed. I was not sure how to explain my situation.

When she came knocking around 3 am, I was ready. I tucked my hair behind my ears and pulled open the door, letting my shields down, she visibly took a step back her fangs descending and her eyes dilating, "Well…that was unexpected."

Good? Bad? Worth Continuing?

-Mel